An enterprising mum-of-three has come up with an ingenious way of ensuring her daughter isn't leaping out of bed at the crack of dawn as the summer draws in.

Megan Gough decided to take a creative approach to make her three-year-old daughter stay in bed despite light streaming into her room from 5am.

The young mum bought a cheap white clock from Ikea - and coloured in different sections.

Before 6.30am is red and means back to bed, 6.30ish to 7am is yellow and means she can play quietly in her room and green, from 7am, is good to go.

Sharing a picture of her creation in a mum's Facebook group, Megan, from Dukinfield, said: "If anyone's going to be struggling with light mornings. This was a plain clock from Ikea, my 3 year old now knows when to get up. Green is good to go."

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Speaking to the M.E.N's Manchester Family , she added: "So she gets up when the glittery hand is in green, if she's awake in yellow, she can play quietly in her room but not in my room and red is back to bed.

"She is really quite good, just the odd problem like waking me up at 1.30am because 'I have no socks on'. Ha! But she does look for daylight to get up and I anticipate a problem with summer coming."